Program Manager - AI Software Development

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Responsibilities

THE ROLE:

This is a program management position within the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Graphics Processing Unit Software Group (AGS). Roadmap planning, Program Management and Project Management of our AI development tools.

THE PERSON: 

• Demonstrate end-to-end ownership / accountability
• Capable of writing down technical software feature definitions
• Ability to obtain accurate effort estimation from architects/engineers
• Track record of delivering on-time to committed schedules
• Good Communicator (Oral, Written, Presentations)
• Interacts well with senior managers, directors, developers and architects
• Willing to work multiple time zones with our European and North America development teams, and Hyderabad testing engineering teams

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Roadmap Planning
  • Own an AI Dev Tool’s roadmap process (requirements definition, scoping, planning, scheduling)
• Program Manager
  • Project manage features with our developers, testers
  • Work with release management to align features to releases
  • Run weekly reviews for P1/S1 defects.
  • Manage JIRA Agile boards tracking tasks for the team.
  • Review requirements for upcoming products.
  • Risk management and escalation will be important.
  • Provide weekly status updates, and present to our management and executive teams.
• Special Project Manager
  • Project manage an UI application and database component
  • Work directly with our Sr. Designer to create and manage a development schedule
  • Create Microsoft Plan v3 schedule and track progress, managing the critical path(s)
  • Create the JIRA Tasks for the engineering teams
  • Provide weekly status updates to managers and directors

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Project management experience in software engineering
• C/C++, Python development experience
• Managing your own projects end-to-end with developers in developing software applications
• Presenting status to Directors and above
• Roadmap planning
• Interaction with product managers
• Embedded or semi-conductor software development background
• Semi-conductor / Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning knowledge
• Performance analysis tools and methods
• Academic courses in AI, Machine Learning, Debuggers, Profilers[LS1] 
• Application development in relevant industry (not Oil, Gas, Healthcare)[LS2] 
• Data Analytics (Weather, Stock, Machine Learning) has a transferable skill
• Certification in project management such as PMP
• Working experience managing projects in Microsoft Project, and capable of using MS Plan v3
• Atlassian Confluence and JIRA experience
• Linux and open-source community development
• Familiar with Linux, Github, development environment.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or equivalent
• Certification(s) in program or project management
• PMP is recommended

LOCATION : Markham, ON

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Qualifications

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